You probably haven't seen a better pic of the moon! [From orbit]

The extraordinary face of the Moon

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/b...ampaign=Feed:+BadAstronomyBlog+(Bad+Astronomy)

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Zoomable flash version:
Nearside Spectacular

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/wac_nearside

You gotta see this!! This is COOL! Mouse click where you want to go, or use the features at the bottom of the moon pic. When you zoom you may have to give it a sec to focus.

I zoomed at the bottom of the moon and panned up slowly. It was like flying over the moons surface. Then I stopped at a crater and went in. There was these things in there that looked like veins in the soil.

 

24,000 by 24,000 pixels....fuck thats so much

 

Very nifty.

 

Thanks for sharing the link. Very cool pic indeed.

 

That looks awesome, might set it as my desktop background

 

yet i go to google earth and cant find a clear pic of my county but i can see grains of sand on the moon

 

Maybe they forbid google from getting too close for privacy reasons?

Besides, we can't go there and mine it like they want to do on the moon.

 

Helium-3 for fusion baby. Energy of the future. I truly think eventually (in our lifetime) we will have all sorts of people setting up shop in space - the moon, Mars, space stations (beyond the international one which, to me, is sort of a baby step), etc. It is the solution to so many problems.

 

Ut oh...

Looks like somebody might already be there..

 

Why are we so interested in Luna? So boring. Jupiter's or Uranus's are better.

 

Boring?

There's Sasquatch trails, a dead killer whale and..

Gaaaahhh! WTF IS THAT THING IN THE CRATER?!?!

 

Maybe it would be more interesting if you didn't post the photos in black&white. This ain't the 1920s

 

Interesting point!

Why isn't it a color camera? Or is it, and the moon is just that one color?

hmm..


And is anyone looking for moon landing evidence? Where are the conspiracy theorists around here?

 

Looks like a job for...




Don't worry, I think we'll be aight.

 

Is that a sex scene going on in the center? I thought this was the free speech forums!

 

I didn't blur it out. But yeah, it does look like there's a bunch of used rubbers around that area.

 

This is very, very cool. At 24,000 pixels this is HUGE. Thanks for the info!